Working Papers

It Takes a Village Election : Turnover and Performance in Local Bureaucracies, with Samuel Bazzi, Benjamin Marx, Mahvish Shaukat, and Andreas Stegmann. (Working Papers: World Bank, NBER. Summary: VoxDev.)

International Migration, Exchange Rate Shocks, and Education Investment. Conditionally Accepted, The Economic Journal.

Screen Set Size and Charitable Giving: A Field Experiment on a Peer-to-Peer Online Donation Platform, with Gedeon Lim and Yohanes Eko Riyanto. Revise and Resubmit, Management Science.

Linking Vocational Schools and Industry: Effects on Teachers in Indonesia, with César Garro-Marín.

Expanding Access in a Semi-Public Education Market: Evidence from a Large High School Expansion, with César Garro-Marín.

Publications

Religion, Education, and the State, with Samuel Bazzi and Benjamin Marx. Review of Economic Studies Vol. 93, Issue 3 (May 2026). [working paper version] [NBER WP version]. 

Education for the Masses or the Pious? Public and Islamic Schools in Indonesia (with Samuel Bazzi, Benjamin Marx). In D. Rohner and E. Zhuravskaya (eds.). Nation Building: Big Lessons from Successes and Failures. Paris, France: CEPR Press. 2023

The Impact of Sending Top College Graduates to Rural Primary Schools. Journal of Southeast Asian Economies Vol. 39, Special Issue: Quality of Basic Education in Southeast Asia (February 2023), pp. S62-S79 (18 pages). [ADB Inst WP. Presentation]

Work in Progress

Changing Norms of Corruption Among Future Public Servants, with Samuel Bazzi, Benjamin Marx, Mahvish Shaukat, and Andreas Stegmann.